Utensil-lifter.



D. M. ALLEN & G. L. RAYMOND.

UTENSIL LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED mm: 3.1915.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

DUBWARD M. ALLEN AND GEORGE RAYMOND, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

UTENSIL-LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

Application filed June 3, 1915. Serial No. 31,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DURWARD M. ALLEN and GEORGE L. RAYMOND, citizens of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Utensil-Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to utensil lifters in which we have opposite hinged jaws pivoted on a handle support opened by thumb lever attachment mounted on the handle and by which the jaws of the lifter are opened or closed by manipulation of the same and which drop by gravity about any object to be lifted.

Our invention has for its object to provide a simply constructed wire lifter for lifting and holding kitchen utensils or cooking utensils and other objects.

With these objects in view our invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view of our device with the jaws open. Fig. 2 is a side view of our device with the jaws open. Fig. 3 is a view of a fragmentary part of our device. Fig. 4 is an end view of a fragmentary part of our device partly in cross section with the jaws closed. Fig. 5 is an end view of a fragmentary part of our device partly in cross section with the jaws open.

The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out our invention we provide a handle rod A which extends into a handle formation B and composed of the side bars 3. 3. Our invention is formed preferably of wire. Hinged to said rod A by means of end loops or eyelets we have the jaws C. C which have the curved lip 2. Mounted between the parallel handle bars 3. 3 we have the cross support 4: and pivotally mounted on A we have the thumb lever 5 composed of side bars 6. 6 pivoted over the support 4: and having the end loops or end formation eyelets 7. 7. The jaws C. C in pivotal connection with the bar A are looped or bent around bar A forming the eyelets 8. 8. The eyelets 7 7 of the thumb lever 5 have pivotal connection with eyelets 8. 8 as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

In practical construction and operation of our device when it is not in use the pivoted jaws. C. C hang vertically from the bar A as shown in Fig. 4, while the thumb lever 5 isin a raised position, as shown in Fig. 4.

'VVhen we desire to open the jaws G. C for the purpose of grasping an object to be lifted we grasp handle B and press down with the thumb on lever 5 which in turn by means of the eyelet connection 7. 7 with the eyelets or loops 8. 8 raises up the jaws C. C outward and upward until they assume the horizontal position shown in Fig. '5. "We then place the jaws over any plate or object to be raised and release the thumb catch 5 which allows the jaws to drop by gravity upon the object to be raised and the lips 2. 2 falling over the edge of the object to be lifted. We then lift up on handle B and the lips 2. 2 of jaws C. C cling to the object to be lifted and it is thus supported and can be carried resting thereon, from one place to another. When we desire to release the object from the aws we press down upon the thumb lever 5 and the jaws are moved outward and upward around the handle bar and terminating in In testimony whereof we have afiixed our rofl-set 100p members, a cross bar bridging signatures in presence of two witnesses. the parallel members of the handle portion, DURWARD M ALLEN and a thumb lever pivotally mounted on the 5 cross bar and having its ends in engagement GEORGE RAYMOND with the off-set loop members of the jaws Witnesses: for spreading the same when the thumb E. A. J OYNER, member is depressed. M. F. TERRY.

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